Orbit vs StationCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbit
Visualize the sun's movement and position with an intuitive clock interface and a sun compass. Utilize augmented reality to pinpoint the sun's location and track daylight hours for multiple saved places. This app works offline and is designed for photographers, travelers, surveyors, and architects.
- Intuitive clock visualization of sun movement
- Sun compass for accurate position tracking
- Augmented reality sun tracking
- Multiple location support
- Sunrise, sunset, dawn, and dusk times
- Offline functionality
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Tracking the sun position has never been so simple and beautiful. Orbit unique clock visualisation shows you the sun movement in a complete intuitive way. Turn the clock ring to see the sun movement and position at any time of the day. Orbit features a sun compass accurately tracks the sun position. Use augmented reality to track the sun position, with a pointer on the iPhone camera pointing you to the right direction. Add multiple locations to keep track of the day length, sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk time, sun position of your favorite places. Designed for photographer, traveller, surveyor and architect. Orbit will work even without internet connection. Features: ● Clock ring to track sun movement ● Sun compass to track the sun position ● Azimuth and elevation (numeric and pictorial) ● Check sun position on any location on any date ● Augmented reality view to track the sun using camera ● Sunrise and sunset time ● Day and night length, dawn and dusk time ● Browse any place their current local time Get Orbit now and be amazed how easy tracking the sun position, daylight length, and local time of your favorite places can be. _______________________ User reviews: - "Works in Arctic! It was great to find an app that gives a reasonable result in the Arctic here." - by Peter the gardener, UK - "Neat! Very nice app." - by Reitveld, USA - "Life saver" - by Dave C L, USA - "Perfect little app" - by Icantwinssss, USA _______________________ Support: Have any question or feedback? Please get in touch with our tech support at support@tapclay.com
StationCast
Access real-time weather data directly from personal weather stations. See accurate measurements for temperature, humidity, wind, and rainfall, with dynamic visual cues reflecting current conditions and lunar phases. Track daily changes and access information quickly via widgets and Apple Watch.
- Real weather readings (temp, humidity, wind, rain)
- Dynamic sky and lunar phase visuals
- Daily high/low and pressure trend tracking
- Save and manage multiple station locations
- Home screen widget and Apple Watch app
- Siri integration
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StationCast turns personal weather stations into places you can check on — home before bed, the harbor before you head out, the backyard where rain hits first. It shows only what a station actually measured, or what can be calculated from physical reality — never forecasts dressed up as fact. • Real readings — temperature, feels-like, humidity, wind, pressure, and rainfall straight from the station, in your units. • A sense of the sky — the background shifts with the current condition, day or night, and the sun arc shows where you are in the day. At night, the icon shows the real lunar phase. • What changed — daily high/low "today so far," pressure trend, and 24-hour charts make the movement obvious. • Your places — save stations, label them (Home, Work, Beach), and move between them fast. • At a glance — a home-screen widget and Apple Watch app keep your station one look away. Ask Siri, or find a saved station in Spotlight. StationCast hides what isn't there: no empty tiles for sensors a station doesn't have, no sun or UV readings after dark.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: StationCast at Free against Orbit's $0.99. StationCast also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 27 months). Orbit's advantage is review sentiment (65% vs 50%) and chart position (#142 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
StationCast is free to download; Orbit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Orbit against 4.3 for StationCast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 50% of StationCast's.
Orbit ships an update every 27 months, StationCast every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbit | StationCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #142 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tapclay | EVAN DAVID HOFFMAN |
Customer experience
Orbit
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In-app purchases
Orbit
No in-app purchases
StationCast
No in-app purchases









